Is GLM 4.7 Flash a good deal?

As of Oct 6, 2026, GLM 4.7 Flash is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. Gemma 4 26B A4B scores 83.0 higher and costs 13% less, with a covering envelope. 12 of 145 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

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Gemma 4 26B A4B is both better and cheaper than GLM 4.7 Flash: 83.0 points higher on LMArena and 13% less per million tokens, $0.018 cheaper at this mix.

GLM 4.7 Flash takes text, returns up to 117,964 tokens from a 200,000-token context, and is listed by 3 sellers.

Compared against 145 rated, priced models on this lens: 2 models dominate it and give up nothing, 4 more dominate it but give something up. GLM 4.7 Flash scores 1350.9 at $0.145 per million tokens for this mix.

Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

Model	LMArena	Effective $/M	You save
Gemma 4 26B A4B	1433.9 +83.0	$0.127/M	13%
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	1432.1 +81.2	$0.113/M	22%

Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

Model	LMArena	Effective $/M	You give up
Qwen3.5-Flash	1397.0	$0.114/M	max output
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507	1384.1	$0.143/M	reasoning
gpt-oss-120b	1365.4	$0.065/M	context
Gemma 3 27B	1357.8	$0.100/M	context, reasoning

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